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personal health services. It has been said that the Health Act
of 1946 is in effect a "National Treatment of Illness Act." This
is largely true, but it is significant and appropriate that the local
government component of the service is accurately named the
"Local Health Authority" A new era in the practice of personal
and environmental hygiene now opens for them.
I take this opportunity to thank the Chairman and members
of the Health Committee for their invariable encouragement and
support during my introductory period. To the staff of the
Department, my thanks are due for their zeal and loyalty, and
for the enthusiasm and skill with which they have met and
solved the new difficulties and problems of the period under
review.
S. L. WRIGHT,
Medical Officer of Health.